I feel like the winter doldrums have really started setting in on us and we need to huddle together to survive until spring.

So here are my recs to get you through these cold and dull months.

Watch:It's an older show, but that doesn't matter. It's so sweet and Dawn French is so funny and likable that nothing else matters. All episodes are available for streaming on netflix, and I believe some of them are available on youtube. And the best part is that you don't even have to believe in God to enjoy the show. I would even love it if this guy never showed up:

Read:The Charley Davidson series. A series about a grim reaper who works as a PI and talks to the dead to help out the local cops. And it's totally hilarious. I want to be friends with Charley and Cookie so. much. If they ever make this series into films I want to play Cookie. I'll take acting lessons! I don't even care!

Listen:An old theater buddy of mine came up late last summer to play Patsy Cline in a show at our local theater and I've been quietly obsessed with her music ever since.

(I can't listen to this at work, so I hope this video is actually the song it claims to be)

Doing:Creating knitting patterns. I'm not especially great at it, but I'm learning. I tend to steal basic ideas from other knitters and then make it do what I want it to do. Although I'm utterly failing at making myself an awesome scarf. SIGH. It's just not working the way I want it to work. WORK, DAMMIT!

I just managed to randomly catch BB on FB chat. She's been really ill this winter and for some reason the Flat is all fucked up on her new computer and she can't fix it. But she wanted me to tell everyone hello and that she misses us and is thinking about us. Let's all send her some love and good vibes and hope she can come back to play with us soon. I told her that I was systematically converting this place to Richard's Flat in her absence, so now she has more incentive to come back and represent for Rob.

JodieO wrote:Listen:An old theater buddy of mine came up late last summer to play Patsy Cline in a show at our local theater and I've been quietly obsessed with her music ever since.

(I can't listen to this at work, so I hope this video is actually the song it claims to be)

I'm glad no one is home w/me right now b/c I just belted my lungs out along w/this song Patsy Cline is very enjoyable, & that is my fav song of hers when I was 14 I went on a summer vacation w/a friend of mine and her parents. it was a car ride that took a couple of days, so my friend and I had our "Walk-Mans" and several cassette tapes to save us from listening to the old people music that her parents were listening to...then my batteries died so I was stuck listening to their music, which was mostly Patsy Cline; and I really liked it (keep in mind my tastes were quite varied, from NKOTB to Def Leppard to Buddy Holly to The Beach Boys; my friends thought I was so lame most of the time ) then a few weeks after returning home, my mom had to practice for a gig that she was despising, b/c she LOATHES country music, but she was doing it for a benefit or something. one of the songs was PC's "walkin after midnight" & my mom was just butchering it, so I stepped in and was like "no, NO! it goes like this...and you gotta go high and then low real quick...and put that warble to your voice" my mom was shocked into silence, wondering how the hell I knew this song

JodieO wrote:Listen:An old theater buddy of mine came up late last summer to play Patsy Cline in a show at our local theater and I've been quietly obsessed with her music ever since.

(I can't listen to this at work, so I hope this video is actually the song it claims to be)

I'm glad no one is home w/me right now b/c I just belted my lungs out along w/this song Patsy Cline is very enjoyable, & that is my fav song of hers when I was 14 I went on a summer vacation w/a friend of mine and her parents. it was a car ride that took a couple of days, so my friend and I had our "Walk-Mans" and several cassette tapes to save us from listening to the old people music that her parents were listening to...then my batteries died so I was stuck listening to their music, which was mostly Patsy Cline; and I really liked it (keep in mind my tastes were quite varied, from NKOTB to Def Leppard to Buddy Holly to The Beach Boys; my friends thought I was so lame most of the time :roll: ) then a few weeks after returning home, my mom had to practice for a gig that she was despising, b/c she LOATHES country music, but she was doing it for a benefit or something. one of the songs was PC's "walkin after midnight" & my mom was just butchering it, so I stepped in and was like "no, NO! it goes like this...and you gotta go high and then low real quick...and put that warble to your voice" my mom was shocked into silence, wondering how the hell I knew this song

JodieO wrote:Listen:An old theater buddy of mine came up late last summer to play Patsy Cline in a show at our local theater and I've been quietly obsessed with her music ever since.

(I can't listen to this at work, so I hope this video is actually the song it claims to be)

I'm glad no one is home w/me right now b/c I just belted my lungs out along w/this song Patsy Cline is very enjoyable, & that is my fav song of hers when I was 14 I went on a summer vacation w/a friend of mine and her parents. it was a car ride that took a couple of days, so my friend and I had our "Walk-Mans" and several cassette tapes to save us from listening to the old people music that her parents were listening to...then my batteries died so I was stuck listening to their music, which was mostly Patsy Cline; and I really liked it (keep in mind my tastes were quite varied, from NKOTB to Def Leppard to Buddy Holly to The Beach Boys; my friends thought I was so lame most of the time :roll: ) then a few weeks after returning home, my mom had to practice for a gig that she was despising, b/c she LOATHES country music, but she was doing it for a benefit or something. one of the songs was PC's "walkin after midnight" & my mom was just butchering it, so I stepped in and was like "no, NO! it goes like this...and you gotta go high and then low real quick...and put that warble to your voice" my mom was shocked into silence, wondering how the hell I knew this song

WHY WERE WE NOT FRIENDS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL?!

IKR?! everything would have been so much easier if I hung out w/someone who actually liked the things that I liked

JodieO wrote:I just managed to randomly catch BB on FB chat. She's been really ill this winter and for some reason the Flat is all fucked up on her new computer and she can't fix it. But she wanted me to tell everyone hello and that she misses us and is thinking about us. Let's all send her some love and good vibes and hope she can come back to play with us soon. I told her that I was systematically converting this place to Richard's Flat in her absence, so now she has more incentive to come back and represent for Rob.

JodieO wrote:I just managed to randomly catch BB on FB chat. She's been really ill this winter and for some reason the Flat is all fucked up on her new computer and she can't fix it. But she wanted me to tell everyone hello and that she misses us and is thinking about us. Let's all send her some love and good vibes and hope she can come back to play with us soon. I told her that I was systematically converting this place to Richard's Flat in her absence, so now she has more incentive to come back and represent for Rob.

Movies: Empire of the Sun, La Bamba, Back to the Future, Platoon, Young Guns, White Water Summer, Flatliners, House I & II, Basketcase, The Night of the Comet, The Last Star Fighter, Stand By Me, & any John Hughes movie

Books: Old Yeller, the "Black Stallion" series, Little Women, Black Beauty, Flowers in the Attic series, and many YA Harlequin romances, w/ a few of the shorter Stephen King thrillers thrown in

Hobbies: (besides all of the above ) roller-skating, riding my bike, pinning up pages from "bopp and tiger beat" until my fingers bled from the push-pins, incessantly making beaded "friendship bracelets" but never actually giving them away to friends